Jorge Bergoglio made history as the first non-European pope of the modern era , the first Jesuit and the first to assume the name Francis. The election of a new Pope was signalled by white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney. Arg...

Amid pomp and ceremony, Benedict XVI left Vatican City for the last time as pope, ahead of his historic resignation as leader of the world's Catholics. The 85-year-old pontiff is being flown by helicopte...

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the BostonMarathon. Bloodied runners and spectators being treated at the scene and the road strewn with debris. President Barack ...

Edward Snowden, ex-CIA employee has said he acted to 'protect basic liberties for people around the world' in leaking details of US surveillance

Edward Snowden, 29, was revealed as the source of the leaks at his own request by the Guardian newspaper.
Snowden, who has fled to Hong Kong, said he had an 'obligation to help free people from oppression'

Egypt's military toppled the country's first democratically elected president and reportedly put him under house arrest

Military is rounding up some of his top supporters even as the deposed Mohamed Morsy insisted that he remains the country's legitimate leader. Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the constitution had been suspended and the chief justice of the constitutional court would take on Mr Morsi's powers

The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy, Kensington Palace has announced. The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST at St Mary's Hospital. The Duke of Cambridge said in a statement the couple 'could not be...

A train has derailed in north-western Spain, killing at least 60 people and injuring many more. It is the worst rail accident in Spain in four decades. All 13 carriages of the train, which was travelling from Madr...

Opposition groups claimed that hundreds were killed when the government used chemical agents in rebel strongholds in the Damascus countryside

Footage shows people carrying limp bodies, some haphazardly covered in sheets, others splayed, nearly nude, on the floor. The allegations come as a U.N. group arrived in Syria to determine whether either side in the conflict is using chemical weapons

50 dead, including 3 firefighters, after supermarket roof collapse A criminal investigation has begun after the roof of a supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga collapsed, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has...

Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva have reached a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, foreign ministers say. Iran agrees to halt some of its work on uranium enrichment for six months. Negotiators from the UK, US, Ru...

Egypt's military toppled the country's first democratically elected president and reportedly put him under house arrest

Military is rounding up some of his top supporters even as the deposed Mohamed Morsy insisted that he remains the country's legitimate leader. Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the constitution had been suspended and the chief justice of the constitutional court would take on Mr Morsi's powers

Opposition groups claimed that hundreds were killed when the government used chemical agents in rebel strongholds in the Damascus countryside

Footage shows people carrying limp bodies, some haphazardly covered in sheets, others splayed, nearly nude, on the floor. The allegations come as a U.N. group arrived in Syria to determine whether either side in the conflict is using chemical weapons

A train has derailed in north-western Spain, killing at least 60 people and injuring many more. It is the worst rail accident in Spain in four decades. All 13 carriages of the train, which was travelling from Madr...

50 dead, including 3 firefighters, after supermarket roof collapse A criminal investigation has begun after the roof of a supermarket in the Latvian capital Riga collapsed, Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis has...

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the BostonMarathon. Bloodied runners and spectators being treated at the scene and the road strewn with debris. President Barack ...

At least three people have been killed and more than 100 injured, some seriously, in two explosions at the finish line of the BostonMarathon. Bloodied runners and spectators being treated at the scene and the road strewn with debris. President Barack ...

Amid pomp and ceremony, Benedict XVI left Vatican City for the last time as pope, ahead of his historic resignation as leader of the world's Catholics. The 85-year-old pontiff is being flown by helicopte...

Edward Snowden, ex-CIA employee has said he acted to 'protect basic liberties for people around the world' in leaking details of US surveillance

Edward Snowden, 29, was revealed as the source of the leaks at his own request by the Guardian newspaper.
Snowden, who has fled to Hong Kong, said he had an 'obligation to help free people from oppression'

Egypt's military toppled the country's first democratically elected president and reportedly put him under house arrest

Military is rounding up some of his top supporters even as the deposed Mohamed Morsy insisted that he remains the country's legitimate leader. Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said the constitution had been suspended and the chief justice of the constitutional court would take on Mr Morsi's powers

The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a baby boy, Kensington Palace has announced. The baby was delivered at 16:24 BST at St Mary's Hospital. The Duke of Cambridge said in a statement the couple 'could not be...

Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva have reached a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, foreign ministers say. Iran agrees to halt some of its work on uranium enrichment for six months. Negotiators from the UK, US, Ru...